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The Wall
Documentary, 54 minutes
Year of production: 2003
Director: Benny Brunner
Produced by VPRO (Dutch public TV) and Benny Brunner
Versions: English
For
the Palestinians it is the “apartheid wall,” for the Israelis the
“separation fence,” or the “security obstacle.”
Whatever it’s called, the name used doesn’t reveal
the true nature of Israel’s arguably biggest civil engineering project in
history. A system – up to 100
meter wide – of razor wire, trenches, electronic sensor controlled fences,
walls, and cameras, which when completed will be almost 700 km long and will
constitute one of the most dramatic geopolitical changes in the history of the
Middle East.
Amazingly,
this project is being constructed without a proper public discussion, and
without the Knesset (Israeli parliament) being even asked to debate and vote on
it.
As
the “separation fence” has been built mainly on Palestinian land, it
separates in the first place Palestinian villages from their lands. Its declared
purpose of separating between Israelis and Palestinians is a lie, in reality it achieves
the opposite. West of the fence, on the Israeli side, hundreds
of thousands
of Palestinians remain in closed enclaves. While east of the fence, on the
Palestinian side, thousands of Israeli settlers remain in their settlements.
Separation this is not.
In
the not too distance future the Middle East will wake up to a new reality: there will be a brutal-cages-state between the
Mediterranean and the Jordan, next to which apartheid South Africa will look
innocent.
For licensing and more information please contact:
Björn Jensen
email: jensen(at)gingerfoot.de
©
2003 Benny Brunner
